This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1896
Page
8
The platform attacks Democratic rule for economic distress and debt, pledges protection to develop American industry, favors renewal of reciprocity, and upholds a gold standard with a measured stance on silver. It endorses Harrison administration policies and calls for American labor protection and revenue from foreign goods.
The article argues Company E in Dillon faces disbandment due to falling below the required enlistment and new laws changing officer terms to four years. It urges citizen support, notes Dillon’s rifle range and funding, and details plans for reorganization led by Sergeant Clark, Corporal Virden, and Private Cushing with a report next Monday. Waurer J. Crowe.
A New York Herald piece humorously argues Shakespeare references to wheels and bicycles appear across his plays. It cites Hamlet, Lear, Cleopatra, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, and Much Ado About Nothing to suggest early modern writers used wheel imagery and even jokes about safety, lamps, chains, and tires, with lines reinterpreted as bicycle jargon.
Monday afternoon W S Barbour assaulted H J Burleigh as he walked to the courthouse with books. Burleigh suffered severe injuries and remained bed bound for days, due to remarks about Barbour's qualifications in the Highsmith trial. Barbour pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and was fined twenty dollars.
A digest of famous figures and elites embracing cycling. Tolstoi requests permission to ride in Moscow while M Zola and others urge brain workers to cycle. Degib Bell and Duncan Harrison plan a June 4 Europe wheel tour. Mrs Grant Sartoris and heirs join cycling with royal and yacht set also voyaging with bikes.
The Illinois Humane Society in Chicago orders that fond fathers uncles and brothers stop strapping babies into baskets or contraptions for bicycle rides. Medical experts claim the rapid motion harms the child’s brain and could lead to prosecution.
The footless bicycle or golf stocking has been on the market for several months and is a great convenience. Many men object to heavy woolen stockings in warm weather and have good reason for doing so. The footless stocking is drawn over an ordinary sock and has a thin band of material to hold it in place under the hollow of the foot.
The Salt Lake City Midsummer Carnival runs July 2 to 4 with grand parades and fireworks. Excursions include Salt Lake, Garfield, and Saltair with a River by 6s concert and tabernacle events. Round trip fares from Montana points are $15 and $22.90 from Helena with tickets sold July 1 and valid until July 11.
Music publisher Brainard’s Sons Co offers the True Blue Republican Campaign Song Book for 1896 campaigns with solos duets and quartets. Priced at 10 pts or $1 per dozen post-paid, pitched to campaign clubs. Also an ad for Parks Tea at N M White Drug Store and a drug-store dialogue.
The clipped items promote Parks Cough Syrup for children and highlight travel via Burlington route to Kansas City with a 22 hour 20 minute saving. Miscellaneous classifieds note lost items a black mackintosh coat and a large black ottster, and propose French Tansy Tablets for menstrual relief sold by D M Newbro Drug Co at two dollars per box.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.